Midwest City's Torey Neal (10) reacts as the Edmond Memorial Bulldogs celebrate the game-winning tip-in by Jordan Woodard (10), right, as time expires in the Class 6A boys championship high school basketball game in the state tournament at the Mabee Center in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday, March 9, 2013. Edmond Memorial won, 49-48. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman

TULSA — A misty-eyed Jordan Woodard stood on the Mabee Center floor and acknowledged he'd have scripted his senior season a little differently than it played out.

The final eight seconds, though?

“I couldn't imagine going out any better,” he said.

Woodard's tip-in at the final buzzer gave Edmond Memorial a stunning 49-48 win over Midwest City and its second Class 6A state championship in three seasons.

It was also the Oklahoma signee's first field-goal make all night.

“Jordan's playing on a torn hamstring,” Edmond Memorial coach Shane Cowherd said. “He's playing on one leg.”

“For him to come out and do what he did ... He's the greatest player I've ever had, maybe the toughest kid I've ever coached. What a winner.”

Woodard missed 11 games of his senior season with a bad hamstring, which was declared fully healed before the state tournament began.

But he re-injured it during the Bulldogs' double-overtime semifinal win over Owasso, he said, and painfully slugged through the state title game on a hamstring his coach said “is basically shredded.”

Edmond Memorial took a double-digit lead late in the first half behind senior Shaquille Morris' dominating inside performance.

Morris finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds.

But Midwest City fought back though the third quarter, taking its first lead with 3:28 left in the period. Bombers junior Torey Noel led his team with 20 points.

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